Edison's Conquest of Mars (Illustrated)

“Setting this turn-of-the-century sci-fi story into an illustrated steampunk fantasy was a brilliant move by those upstart editors at Absolutely Amazing eBooks.”
- Byron Rupert McCafferty, Online Critics Corner

Thomas Edison in outer space? A steampunk retelling of history? Martian invaders? Yes, it’s all here in this sci-fi classic written in 1898. This unique edition is illustrated by nearly one hundred and fifty photograph that take you from Earth to the Moon to Mars and back as the famous inventor and his ragtag crews stave off an alien invasion. Great fun!

Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851 - 1929) was an American astronomer and an early science fiction writer. Born in upstate New York, he majored in science at Cornell, then earned a law degree at Columbia University. Instead of practicing law, he joined The New York Sun as a reporter. His ability to explain scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader. In all, he wrote fifteen books, eight of them devoted to astronomy. Five were science fiction novels. This book – Edison’s Conquest of Mars – was written on assignment from The Boston Globe.